Jinghong Building

Chapter 387 Sisters

Like before, Zhou Jian took out the article he wrote and presented it to He Ran respectfully, humble and polite.

His articles have not improved compared to two years ago. When he was in Jinling, He Ran read all the test papers of the top three counties in the spring exam. He read too many good articles and his vision has improved. Let's look at Zhou Jian again. I can’t read the articles after just a few lines.

He Ran sighed silently in her heart. Although she has not allowed Zhou Jian to participate in government affairs over the years, she has never had any shortage in studying.

Needless to say, Bai Yan has become famous all over the world with the morning newspaper. Even the teachers selected for Zhou Jian later have real talents and knowledge, but Zhou Jian has not made any progress.

Whether it is reading or these articles accumulated with gorgeous words, they are all for He Ran to read.

All are deliberate.

He Ran laughed at herself, maybe Zhou Jian deliberately hid his weakness and dared not express it in front of her?

If this is the case, I wouldn't have all my brains filled with water, and it would be vain to educate him for so many years.

He Ran asked about Zhou Jian’s daily life again, and Zhou Jian’s answer was good in everything.

After dinner, He Ran left the palace.

Seeing that it was not too late, she asked Xiaoli to take the gifts she brought from Jinling to Lao Mansion.

Since she knew she was back, Mrs. Shangguan had a look at her. When she saw He Ran, she held her hand tightly: "I'm back, it's good to come back, it's good to come back."

In the past two years, Lao family has been imported. After Lao Fengyun recovered from his injury, he married Mao Yunzhen, the granddaughter of Mao Qidong, a former Hanlin Academy Grand Secretary.

Now Mao Yunzhen is pregnant, standing behind Mrs. Shangguan, looking at He Ran with curiosity.

Lao Guanghuai was a plan and commanded the Ministry of Revenue. There were countless people in the capital watching the marriage of Lao Fengyun, the eldest grandson, but in the end the position of the Lao family's eldest grandmother fell on Mao Yunzhen. No matter how you look at it, the Mao family was all. It's high climb.

However, He Ran knew why Lao Guanghuai did this because of her.

As her foreign family, the more contributions Lao Guang made, the more low-key the Lao family would be. A scholarly family like the Mao family is the most suitable marriage partner at present.

He Ran smiled: "This is the eldest cousin's wife."

Mao Yunzhen's cheeks flushed slightly, she stepped forward to salute and shouted, "Cousin."

After saying that, he took a small box from the maid and handed it to He Ran with both hands: "It was given when he recognized the marriage. It has been delayed for two years, so don't bother me."

He Ran thanked him, took the box, greeted the women for a while, delivered the gifts he brought one by one, and then talked to Mrs. Shangguan for a while, then said goodbye to Laomofang Hutong.

After returning, she opened the meeting gift given by Mao Yunzhen and saw that there were a pair of exquisite embroidered satin shoes and a dignified and elegant hairpin.

This is the most common gift for a new daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law's sister. It is just more refined and exquisite, but it is not intentional.

He Ran has a good impression of Mao Yunzhen, and this is the fate between people. Some people have a good impression of each other when they meet each other for more than ten years.

Xiaoli smiled and said, "The boss is too busy, maybe he doesn't know yet. Grandma Lao Da is a talented woman. Now she has many fans in Jinling."

"Oh? So powerful?" He Ran became interested.

Xiaoli flipped through the newspaper basket, found several newspapers, pointed to a name on it, and said to He Ran, "This person who signed the Ghost Arrow was found to be Grandma Lao Da."

He Ran smiled. Mao Yunzhen's surname was Mao, and Mao Ketong's spear was also named after the ghost arrow in Chinese medicine, which is Wei Tu.

He Ran picked up one of the articles and read them. It was actually an article criticizing Gao Lu, a famous scholar in Qiantang.

Recently, Gao Lu became famous because he proposed to ask unmarried people to pay single tax. Even He Ran summoned him personally, and this article by Gui Arrow criticized Gao Lu for taking young girls as concubines and being a teacher.

His words are spicy but humorous, and he speaks Gao Lu as worse than beasts.

He Ran frowned. This is an article published in the evening newspaper. Look at the date. It was ten days ago. She was on the way at that time. No wonder she hadn't read it.

He Ran said to Xiaoli, "Go and check this matter."

The next day, Xiaoli told He Ran about the investigation. Although Gao Luyuan was in Qiantang, this incident was not a secret and had already been spread to the capital. No wonder Mao Yunzhen knew about it.

"Gao Lu is already romantic. He has two concubines from the Qinhuai River. After being summoned by the boss, he became even more famous than before. He took in five concubines, one of whom was a talented Qing Dynasty, who was famous. Two other men are Yangzhou skinny horses, and the other two are good children and twins, both of whom are eleven years old. He was very proud of this and wrote a poem, which was written in it. Two young concubines.

He is now famous, and his poems and essays were soon spread. People in the capital knew about this from his poems and essays. ”

He Ran slapped the table with a slap, his face sinking like water: "Good son? What's going on?"

Xiaoli said, "It is said that there are matchmakers and gamblers, and they have complete etiquette."

He Ran sneered: "Go and check the parents' homes of those two young concubines, and see what the **** is sending such a young daughter to be a concubine!"

She and Feng Xieying spent a year revising the new law, which clearly stated that the youngest woman is fifteen years old for the first marriage, and whether she is married, the minimum age is fifteen years old, which is also in line with the folk conventions of this era.

The new law was implemented in Jiangnan since the first month of this year. Calculate the date and Gao Lu took his concubine after the first month.

Within a few days, the matter was clearly investigated. The sisters were really good children and were also from a scholarly family!

Their father was a scholar who failed many times and highly praised Gao Lu. Once, he invited Gao Lu to his house to drink. Gao Lu saw a pair of sisters in his family and praised him. The father kept Gao Lu. Spending the night at home, he sent his two daughters to Gaolu's bed that night.

Gao Lu's repayment to this cheap father-in-law was to add his name to a new book he participated in compilation.

He was also invited to attend the literary conference held by the four major academies. With his fame, he was originally not qualified.

He Ran was furious and wrote a letter to Feng Xieying who was still in Jinling, saying, "Don't pretend to be dead." This matter can be spread to the capital. I don't believe you will not know.

Regardless of whether you are tolerant and understanding of such things, you should be punished if you violate the law!

After Feng Xieying received He Ran's letter, he had two big heads.

To be fair, he did not agree with this kind of thing, but he loved talent, and Gao Lu did have talent. Therefore, after seeing Gao Lu's new poem, he instinctively ignored the story behind the poem.

He Ran's letter made Feng Xieying feel ashamed. He remembered that many years ago, he and He Ran were in the simple study in Jinyang, and were fighting for Xinlu red.

At that time, he thought that it was enough for men and women to be 16, and that it was enough for them to add family labor to the people, to ensure that property was born in succession, and to pass on the family line. For those in power, early marriage and early childbirth could increase the population and make more taxes.

However, He Ran believes that all the sixteen men and fourteen women are too young, which is not conducive to eugenics and good parenting. During the war years, teenagers aged 14 to 16 have more or less maldevelopment, regardless of men and women, and have not yet grown up as parents. How to give birth to healthy offspring? Maybe it will cost two lives, so how can we talk about increasing the population?

For this reason, He Ran also asked someone to find thirty young men and women from the city and asked the doctor to take his pulse and check his body. Finally, it was proved that what He Ran said was right.

Therefore, in the new law, the legal age for marriage is defined as seventeen male and fifteen female.

Originally, He Ran wanted to be the eighteenth male and sixteenth female, but when they visited, many people were worried that they would not live to live on the day their children grew up, and that they were worried that they would get married too late. If they died, their children would be left unattended. In desperation, He Ran decided to temporarily set the 17th male and the 15th female. After the world is peaceful, the people live and work in peace, and the people's living standards have been significantly improved, they will change to 18th male and 16th female.

The more Feng Xieying thought about it, the more ashamed he felt. The boss was right inspiring him, because he forgot his original intention.

Not long after, Gao Lu, a famous scholar in Qiantang, was punished forty by a stick and fined 100 taels of silver. The news of three years of labor was spread to the capital, and there were many discussions among the government and the country.

The news came out with the cheap father-in-law. In addition to being punished forty, fined 100 taels of silver, and worked for three years, he was also redeemed the scholar's reputation.

The other four daughters and one son in his family were all sent to the clan and were raised by the clan.

In Jiangnan, once the news that Gao Lu was taken away from his home came out, the entire Jiangnan literary world was sensation.

Scholars spontaneously took to the streets to argue for Gao Lu. Some conspiracy theorists believed that Gao Lu was framed, and what kind of young concubine was this? It was just taking advantage of the problem.

Not only Feng Xieying, who handled this matter, but even He Ran, who was far away in the capital, was criticized for this matter.

He Ran remained motionless.

Not only did they not settle down, they asked Bai Yan and He Yamin to increase the publicity of the matter and make the matter famous.

The Ghost Arrow Lady Mao Yunzhen was overjoyed and waved her pen to write several articles. When He Ran saw it, she simply asked Bai Yan to debate in the newspaper and initiated a vote in Beijing and Jinling.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

After the voting in Jinling came out, it can be imagined that the majority of people believed that Gao Lu was dealt with improperly, and only a small number believed that Gao Lu was punished for violating the law.

But unexpectedly, the same vote was completely opposite to that of Jinling.

Eighty percent of votes believe that Gao Lu's move should be severely punished, and only 20% of the people believe that the handling is inappropriate.

The morning and evening newspapers in both places all published the voting results, and there were also street interviews.

It's interesting to say that when interviewing a scholar, the scholar was filled with righteous indignation and hoarse support from Gao Lu.

As a result, I was asked: Do you have a daughter at home?

The scholar nodded: The little girl just turned one year old.

Question: When she is eleven years old, would you like to give her to someone as a concubine?

Scholar: Who dares to attack my daughter? I will fight with him!

He always said that he was embarrassed and left in a panic with his sleeves.

This incident was noisy for more than a month, but it ended up because of a village woman.

The village woman's daughter was abducted and was dying when she was found. She was unable to save her and was still dead.

The little girl was bought by an old bachelor and was ravaged to death.

The village woman beat the drum in front of the yamen and made a complaint, touching the ground with her head, and was covered in blood.

As soon as this incident happened, there was an article about Ghost Arrow in the morning newspaper the next day, comparing this incident with the Gaolu incident. This time, Gaolu's supporters became mute together.

He Ran asked about the recent situation of the sisters, and after asking, he realized that the sisters almost lost their lives.

Although Gao Lu was forced to write a book to give up, they had nowhere to go. They were already married and could not go back to their parents' home, and they did not dare to return to the tribe. Going back would be a dead end.

The two of them could only stay in the Gao family for the time being, of course they no longer became concubines. They are now maids, often being made difficult, and even being beaten by Gao Lu's original wife and concubines.

Feng Xieying had no choice but to ask Xiu Gu to go to Gao’s house and picked them up.

Qiantang and Jinling are more than 500 miles away. Although this is well known, not many people have actually seen them, let alone Qiantang.

Xiu Gu sent them to Renyi Academy and handed them over to Ji Shujun. They changed their names and became students of Renyi Academy.

This is about the enrollment of Renyi Academy.

Although the college has been established, the enrollment situation is very troublesome.

In a whole month, only five students were recruited.

These five people all come from officials' homes, including the sister or daughter of newly-released officials sent from the capital to Jiangnan, and also the female family members of officials who went south to the homes of officials who went south.

None of them comes from the people, nor from the Jiangnan family.

After hearing this, He Ran asked officials from all over the country to increase publicity efforts and focused on promoting non-official female family members to study in academy, without any slack off, and would wear clothes for all four clothes every year, including food and accommodation.

However, even so, only ten more people were collected. Eight of these ten people were merchant women, and the other two were also famous by their father and brother.

Now, in Renyi Academy, there are 17 students in total.

This is also the first session of Renyi Academy.

No matter how many people there are, He Ran believes that this is worthy of being recorded in history.

During these days when he returned to the capital, He Ran took a break from his busy schedule and combined with the various problems encountered in the operation of Renyi Academy, he finally found the crux of the problem.

Why do ordinary people refuse to send their daughters to study for free?

It is because they think that reading for women is useless, and sending them to a college to study is a waste of time.

The woman has only been in her parents' home for more than ten years, and she can only help her home for a few years. In these few years, she still has to study. Who will cook pig grass, who will cook, wash clothes and take care of her younger brother?

What?

Nowadays, women can also participate in the imperial examination and become Jinshi and become officials?

What a joke?

My ancestors have been covered with mud legs for generations. Do you think there is blue smoke coming from my ancestor tomb?

Instead of wasting time studying, it is better to learn embroidery. Maybe you can work in the embroidery workshop to make money to help your home.

He Ran's eyes lit up, she was really confused.

There are many kinds of learning.

Studying and taking the imperial examinations is learning, and learning skills and making money is also learning.

Half a month after returning to the capital, He Ran called Dong Jinzhen, Li Jinxiu, and Lu Chang over.

She wants to run a vocational school!

Yes, but of course you can't call this name.

A school that not only teaches people to read and read.